Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
  • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
  • B41J3/00—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
  • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
  • G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
  • G07B17/00193—Constructional details of apparatus in a franking system
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
  • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
  • G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
  • G07B17/00193—Constructional details of apparatus in a franking system
  • G07B2017/00241—Modular design
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
  • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
  • G07B17/00459—Details relating to mailpieces in a franking system
  • G07B17/00508—Printing or attaching on mailpieces
  • G07B2017/00516—Details of printing apparatus

Definitions

• the invention relates to a one-way franking device for printing fee values and indications of envelopes and / or franking strips.
• the invention had for its object to provide a one-way franking device that can frank up to a fixed amount of credit and is then unusable, thereby eliminating the need for security reloading.
• the franking device is composed of a basic unit and a non-reloadable one-way module and that the basic unit and the one-way module have means for setting variable information.
• the subdivision of the franking device into a disposable module and a basic unit eliminates the need for extensive security measures for reloading loan amounts.
• the basic unit being reloadable to a certain extent for security-independent information.
• the disposable module prints on strips that are applied separately to envelopes or packages, as well as directly on envelopes.
• the single-use module is available in different versions.
• the extensive disposable module prints a complete franking imprint with the security information, e.g. B. the fee outline.
• the security information e.g. B. the fee outline.
• the fee value with the border, the place stamp, the date, information such as sender or advertisement and the type of mail transport are printed by the printing device of the one-way module.
• a second variant of the one-way module is only able to print the fee value, the fee outline, the place stamp and the date.
• the instructions and the type of mail transport are printed by a printing device of the basic unit or are already part of franking strips to be printed.
• a third variant of the one-way module is characterized by the fact that the information is printed exclusively. These are fee values and date.
• disposable modules represent practically programmable printing units, whereby thermal transfer and ink jet methods are preferably used.
• thermal transfer and ink jet methods are preferably used.
• dot matrix printers can also be used.
• the variant of the one-way module for printing only the changeable information is the most economical embodiment.
• the printing of variable information only requires a less developed print head, e.g. B. a thermal series or a high-pressure inkjet type.
• a wax-coated ribbon is used, from which the heating elements of the thermal print head melt the color at certain points.
• Such a tape can be pre-impregnated, for example, by having characters and figures in an already melted and thus printable form. This results in the effect of a quick impression of these parts of the printed image with a high resolution.
• the printing device of the one-way module for printing the variable information can then have a lower resolution.
• Another advantage of this variant is that the full printing width of the franking imprint is no longer necessary to print the variable information, and thus a narrower print head can be used for the disposable module.
• Such pre-impregnated tapes are integrated in the disposable module for security reasons and are automatically destroyed when the credit amount of the disposable module is used up.
• pre-impregnated tapes instead of pre-impregnated tapes it is also possible to use pre-printed strips, which may have colored information.
• the subdivision of the franking device into a disposable module and a base unit offers the advantage of producing an economical disposable module which only prints the changeable information, and of using a print head which is more powerful in terms of resolution and print width for the standard information in the base unit. This print head can then also be changeable with regard to the printing clichés, without the need for technical security measures.
• the basic unit takes up the necessary means for setting the changeable information on the basic unit and possibly on the one-way module.
• the basic unit can be omitted entirely, the setting means for the fee and date values being assigned to the one-way module.
• the single-use module After the single-use module has been used up, it can be destroyed or returned to the manufacturer.

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• Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
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• Devices For Checking Fares Or Tickets At Control Points (AREA)
• Accessory Devices And Overall Control Thereof (AREA)
• Electronic Switches (AREA)
• Photographic Processing Devices Using Wet Methods (AREA)
• Record Information Processing For Printing (AREA)

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• 1991
  • 1991-02-19 DE DE4105497A patent/DE4105497C2/de not_active Expired - Fee Related
  • 1991-12-02 HU HU913763A patent/HUT60401A/hu unknown
  • 1991-12-07 EP EP19910121020 patent/EP0499703A3/de not_active Withdrawn
  • 1991-12-12 KR KR1019910022715A patent/KR920016258A/ko not_active Withdrawn
• 1992
  • 1992-01-07 CA CA002058886A patent/CA2058886C/fr not_active Expired - Fee Related
  • 1992-01-13 ZA ZA92240A patent/ZA92240B/xx unknown
  • 1992-02-18 CS CS92473A patent/CS47392A3/cs unknown
  • 1992-02-19 US US07/838,489 patent/US5359359A/en not_active Expired - Lifetime

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